A lecture hosted by the Thomistic Institute.

Advances across a broad front in biology, cognitive psychology, and

information technology are challenging our traditional notions of human nature.

Blurring the boundaries between humans, animals, and machines, these

advances raise theoretical and practical challenges of profound importance for

the future of humanity. Exploring these issues within an interdisciplinary

perspective, we will seek a coherent physical, cultural, and philosophical

anthropology, an understanding of the 'boundaries of humanity’ that defends

human dignity and promotes the personal, social, and spiritual flourishing of

human life.